Amid growing international concern over the spread of superbugs on farms, slaughterhouses and supermarket meat counters, Health Canada is moving to phase out use of antibiotic growth promoters in Canadian livestock.

OTTAWA – Auditor General Michael Ferguson has found Canada’s public service integrity commissioner, his deputy and an investigator guilty of gross mismanagement and wrongdoing in the handling of two whistleblowers’ complaints made against the integrity’s watchdog’s office.

Patrick Smith
Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA - Liberal leader Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that federal politicians could learn from the Quebec election, as he congratulated premier-elect Philippe Couillard for a campaign focused on “on bringing people together and not driving them apart.

OTTAWA – Federal unions are running a pre-emptive campaign to save sick leave and challenge the Conservative government’s “myths” about public servants’ absenteeism in the lead-up to a watershed round of collective bargaining meant to replace existing benefits with a new short-term disability plan.

OTTAWA - The board that polices MPs' spending is expected to tell the NDP that, effective next week, it can no longer use House of Commons funds to pay staff in "satellite" branches of Tom Mulcair's Office of the Leader of the Opposition.

OTTAWA — The national consequences of a Liberal majority government in Quebec were instantly clear Monday: Canadians can count on stability in Quebec for the next several years without fear of another sovereignty referendum.

By Allison Hanes
MONTREAL — Incumbent premier Pauline Marois quit as leader Monday night after being defeated in her own riding as Quebec voters dealt a stinging blow to the Parti Quebecois and its controversial charter of values.